12 new demo tracks for my metal opera are now cataloged online with the rest of the project at http://www.devinmoore.com/matsf.html

Still trying to get transfer credits into the Ph.D program for all my master’s degree classes that in my view clearly are overlapping related courses (class name is the same, structure of the program based on multiple class names appears to be the same, etc.)

I received word that Via Colori in Columbus may be held this year at the Ohio Historical Society. More news pending when I find out any more details.

I hereby petition everyone to stop using “musician” as a term to define people who get up on stage and pantomime to other people’s musical talents. That may be entertainment to some, but it has nothing to do with musicianship. There are multiple entertainment acts marketing themselves especially to kids that do this, I need not mention any names ahemjonasbrothers, coughmileycyrus, but you know who you are. Calling an entertainment act a musical act is lying, and it confuses the audience as well as the industry as to which groups are legitimately creating and performing their own music. The Rolling Stones are a musical act. Dream Theater is a musical act. If you are on stage and the music people hear in the crowd is not coming from you, you are not a musical act.

I am not saying that you can’t be an entertainer, or that entertainers “suck” or anything like that.  I am merely pointing out that the world of music does not need people calling themselves musicians who are not putting on an actual music show, but rather a carefully coreographed performance either to tape or to backup musicians (i.e. someone else is playing the guitar you hear vs. the celebrity on stage with a guitar).  I also think any show with lip sync should have to bill those shows as such, including American Idol (for shame!), but that’s phase two I suppose.

To movie reviewers: if a movie has large elements of fiction, do not be surprised if it has small elements of fiction. For example, do not complain that in an animated movie about monsters attacking aliens, it is unrealistic that the mutant 50-foot tall woman would use cars as roller skates because of the mechanics of a car’s wheels vs. a real rollerskate. I mean seriously: in a CGI movie where a 50-foot tall woman teams up with a band of monsters to attack alien invaders, you are going to tell me that something in that is unrealistic? WOW!

Similarly for the Back To The Future movie, where critics out that Plutonium doesn’t glow… so wait, there’s something unrealistic about the depiction of the Plutonium… powering the time traveling car… that ends up being a flying, fusion-powered time traveling car? DUH!

See my artwork alongside the Spring Formal Fashion & Auction Show April 4, 2009, at Hair Galleria in New Middletown, Ohio.

Test of the new posting method to make sure it works on the multifeed poster.

Test new fractal

Originally uploaded by devinmoore.

This fractal is a test of some other new custom programs I am running.

See my “Landscape with Tree” artwork at Issue 16 of Magnus: http://magnusmag.com/issue/16

Landscape with Tree

Originally uploaded by devinmoore.

A larger cropped photo of the 24″x24″ oil painting.